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...observations in August, 1956. Since that time the observatory has been recording radiation from the sun 10 hours a day, every day of the year, except for the infrequent interruptions due to failures of the equipment. At 7 a.m. the station automatically turns itself on. A wire parabolic dish, 28 feet in diameter and mounted above the ground on steel legs, begins to follow the sun in its path through the sky. At the focus of this dish a complex antenna system receives the signals from the sun as they are reflected off the wire screen. In the nearby dust...
...antenna has a dish 85 feet in diameter made of giant metal plate rather that simple wire mesh. The massive structure, aptly described as a "moveable bridge" can be pointed at any spot in the sky by throwing a switch in the laboratory which has been constructed nearby. Unlike the sweep-frequency receivers, this instrument can only do observations at 950-megacycles (L-band) and 5,000 megacycles (C-band). No other comparable antenna in the world (and there are few of them) is operating at C-band and so any work which Harvard does at this frequency will...
Tundra Killer. Berg discovered the sciomyzid's taste for snails quite by accident. While doing research in Alaska on mosquito control, he occasionally dipped sciomyzid larvae from tundra pools. One afternoon he happened to put a single larva into a dish along with five snails. Half an hour later, he had a chilling surprise: "I saw the larva with its head thrust into the opening of a snail shell, its mouth hooks working. When I came back the next morning, the larva had pulled out, but half the soft parts of the snail were gone...
...dinner, appreciation is shown by "the fact that you eat well and probably get slightly drunk." Since Chinese dinners run to eight courses, one should never be the first to take food from a new dish or eat much of what is served at meal's end. It indicates that hunger has not been satisfied-and will probably bring on whole new courses...
...gathered in Paris for the haute couture fall previews, have got to headline something, and Christian Dior's Marc Bohan had just given them nothing-sacred necklines. Jacques Heim, breaking with top secret tradition, called in photographers and gave them permission to expose to the world his deep-dish evening dresses. It was a fun way to liven up a dull week, but Paris has long since taken bosoms to her heart...